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A09841	A newe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens liues, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof this 1600. yeare of Christ, (erroniouslie called a yeare of Iubilee) which is from the Creation, the 5548. yeare. Conteining sundrie singularities, worthie of observation, concerning courses of times, and revolutions of the heauen, and reformations of kalendars, and prognistications: with a discourse of prophecies and signes, preceeding the latter daye, which by manie arguments appeareth now to approch. With a godlie admonition in the end, vpon the words of the Apostle, to redeeme the time, because the dayes are evill. By M. Robert Pont, an aged pastour in the Kirk of Scotland. The heades are set downe in certaine propositions, in the page following.	Pont, Robert, 1524-1606.	1599 (1599)	STC 20104; ESTC S114916	62,367	102

is more then the space of a Moneth what errour it may growe to by proces of time it is easie by this example to perceiue And so wee must confesse indeede that the olde Kalendare in this poynt hath neede of reformation As also that Cycle or count called the Paschall Cycle of Dionysius Now Lilius in his new Kalendar to restore that Cycle of Dionysius to the right reckoning maketh his counte by hundreths because every 304. yeares which is the space of sixteene Golden numbers one day being added to the Golden number of nineteene yeares supplieth the houres and Minutes of the course of the Moone But this counte by hundreths hath divers imperfectiones Namely because in his Epactes counting by hundreths no exact methode can be observed yea the variety of the course of the Moone can not so formally bee counted thereby as by the Golden number which conteineth lesse space besides that the Paschal tearms aggree not oftimes thereto wheranent you may reade Ioseph Scaliger in the end of his learned woork De emendatione temporum where also he setteth downe a more perfite reckoning by a Table of equall Epactes where-anent because it is hard to be conceived by them that are not wel acquainted with Astronomical reckonings I cease now further to speak Alwaies wee shall vnderstande it is very difficill to finde out ane Cycle that may make an absolute perfite reckoning of the course of the Moone to frame it to anie perpetuall Kalendar Yea as Io. Stoeflere wryteth in his greate Romane Kalendare no Paschall Cycle may exactly comprehend the same Which alwaise is best found out by the Epacts and by the Golden number receiving a juste correction Therefore for the instruction of the common ●orte of men best it is by Astronomicall counte to sette a Table or Almanacke conteining the right reckoning of the course of the Moone for manie yeares either by her midde motiones or by her appearing and true motiones as Io. Stoeflere did for certaine yeares in his dayes In the meane time it shall suffice for a grosse and common instruction of all men to place the Golden number in the Iuliane Kalendare vppon the precise dayes of the change of the Moone as it is nowe set downe in diverse Kalendars For that will serue to declare what daye everie change falleth out and whether it be before or after noone by adding of the letter B. or A. to everie particulare Golden number which maye serue for a long season without anie perceptible variation And who would knowe more exactlie the houres and Minutes of everie Change Full or quarter of the Moone let them gette once by ane Ephemeride or right Prognostication the chaunge of one Moone with the dayes houres and Minutes thereof and counte to the next change twenty nine daies twelue houres and fourtie foure Minutes And from the Change to the Full fourteene dayes eighteene houres and twentie two Minutes And for everie quarter seaven dayes nine houres and elleven Minutes proceeding so farre as you lyste it shall bee the true reckoning of the course of the Moone As to the Paschall Cycle we need not be carefull thereof But take heede to the first full Moone after the vernall Aequinoctium and ever the next Sunday thereafter should be Pasche or Easter day and thereby you may propagate an Almanacke for the moueables Feastes as farre foorth as ye please after the rule of the Nicene Councell But to bee too much curious concerning the observation of those Feastes it is not necessary for true Christians for wee know that concerning the resurrection of Christ which admonisheth vs to ryse in newnesse of life everie seventh daye in the yeare which wee call the Sundaie or Lordes day putteth vs in remembrance thereof And otherwise wee are forewarned by the Apostle Not to be supersititions in observation of times dayes and yeares that wee be not brought in Iewish bondage thereby And againe That no man shoulde iudge vs in Meate or Drinke or in respecte of an Holic-daie or of the newe Moone or of the Sabbothe dayes which were but shaddowes of thinges to come But the bodie is in Christe meaning the substance thereof was accomplished in Christe And wee haue no commandement nor ground out of the Scripture nor any example of Christ or his Apostles for observation of those daies For as to the typical Pasche or Passeover of the Iews it was finished in Christ when he our true Passeover or Paschal Lambe was sacrificed for vs And we as Paule sayeth haue now to keepe a feast spiritually al the days of our life putting away the olde leaven of malice and vvickednesse with vnleavened bread of sincerity and trueth And the other invented Paschetyde or Easter after the resurrection of Christe is but the invention of men how auncient soever it be So that the great contentiones and controversies that followed in the auncient Church for the day wherin the same was to be observed both before and after the Nicene councell are skarsely worthy to be recited And yet Victor Bishoppe of Rome as that seate was ever proude for not observing the same day which he and his adherentes kept did excommunicate al them of the churches of Asia that kept an other day For the which cause the godly Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons justly founde great fault with him Notwithstanding the Church agreeing to the observation of such a day as an indifferent thing in remembrance of the resurrection of Christ there is no necessity to counterfaite the lawe of Moyses in observing the time of the Moone but it may be fixed to a certaine day of the Moneth or else following the full Moone to finde it out after the maner before recited Alwaies our Christian libertye ought not to be prejudged herein And so I make an end SIXT PROPOSITION That there is a certaine merveilous Sympathie and aggreement of Periodes of times in reckoning by seauens and by Sabbaticall yeares And of the manifold mysteries of the number of seaven EVen as God the author and conserver of all things in a comely and decent order hath appoynted an succession and progresse of time for accomplishment of the naturall course thereof so hath hee appoynted certaine periodes and revolutiones of time wherein thinges returne to the same or like estate wherein they were of before So wee see in the motions of the heaven which are measured by time or rather which are the measures of time the Sunne the Moone and the starres to haue their peculiar and distinct revolutiones wherein they accomplish their courses and returne after a limitate and determinate space of time to the places from the which they did departe As the Sunne compleeting his course and revolution in the space of 365. dayes and neere sixe houres or the quarter of an day ascribeth vnto vs that space of time which we cal the yeare which returning in it selfe in Latine is tearmed Annus quasi annulus taking the similitude

in this life for the most part is spent to witte in vanitie idlenesse yea over often in vice and wickednesse and that little time which is bestowed in vertue or godlinesse is commonly most wearisome As when men are occupyed be they Magistrats or judges in hearing the plaintes of the poore and execution of justice be they inseriours or craftel-men or labourers in doing their handie worke and appoynted labour to the profit of themselues and their families But in spending of it which by that meanes they winne as in drinking playing or vaine games there is no hoe not falsherie to be occupyed night and day and in matters of godlinesse see we not what fassherie it is even to many not of the worst sort to spend the space of an houre or little more in hearing the word of God wherein standeth our salvation who will not like nor tire of sit at table thrise as long to feede the bodie yea oft-times to over-burden it with meate and drinke to whome it is so irksom shorter time to haue their soules fedde with that word which is the more precious an delicat food of everlasting life VVherfore seing the most part of this world regards so little of time but pas it over so lightly to their great damnage and perrill of their own soules we the faithful ought to be the more earnest to exhort admonish one another to occupy the short time we haue heare not as the common sorte of carelesse men vses but in such waies as wee may bee able at least in some measure to giue account to him that ●es placed vs in this earth as vppon a skaffold to play our parte and if we haue neglected or mispent the time by-past to take heede to recover the losse thereof in times comming Nowe this is the cause and ende wherefore Paule in the words of our text exhorted so diligently the faithfull of his daies to redeeme time by recovering the losse by-past making much of the time present of time to come so long as they haue it apprehēding greedely the occasiō offred vnto them to do wel And this the Apostle speaketh to the Gentiles of his time being newly converted to the knowledge of the Gospell having respect to their-by-past life and conversation spent in vanitie wickednesse and ignorance of God according to the which tendeth that saying of Peter in his first Epistle 4. chap. verse 3. as he writeth also of the same matter saying It is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the time past of the life after the lusts of the Gentiles walking in wantonnesse lustes drankennesse in gluttonie and in abhominaeble idolatries And this same our Apostle to the like purpose in another place sayeth We know the time that the houre is now to rise from sleep for our salvation is nearer then when we beleued the night is past the day is at hand Let vs therefore caste awaie the workes of darkenesse and put on the armor of light that we may walke honestlie as in the da●e not in gluttony drunkennesse nor in strife nor invying not in chambring wantonnes but to put on the Lord Iesus Christ take no thoght for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it So here the meaning of the Apostle is where he speaketh of redeeming of time that the faithfull take greate diligence in the recovering of that which is by-past and lost by walking more circumspectlie and diligently in the trad of godlines in times comming taking a similitude from worldly men worldly affairs As if a Merchant hauing slipt slept his businesse in not comming in due time to his market should be put in remembrance to be more vigilant in times comming and vse more diligence in vttring his wares in time to come or as if it were to fore-warne vs not to be like vnthriftie spenders wedde-setters of lande who spend ryotously the money they take vpon it haue taken no heed to pay the yearely duetie or annuel-rent to the creditors but let it slip over the longer they so do the Land is worse to redeeme vnlesse they take better heede in times comming So they that driue time to amende their liues from daye to daye and suffer themselues to be carryed awaie in a custome and habite of evill doing repent over-late when they cannot amend the former losse Therefore the Apostle in the words preceeding desireth the Ephesians to take heede to walk circum spectly not as such vnwise men but as the vvise and vnderstand what the vvill of the Lorde is And as wee are made light in the Lorde so wee walke in the Light and sight of him and his Angelles having them as witnesses of all our doings Al-be-it no mortall man should knowe the same and so to become wiser then the common sorte of the Worlde as being instructed in the Schoole of Christ the fountaine of all true wisedome This being the minde and meaning of the Apostle concerning the redemption of time wee haue to marke the cause of this his earneste admonition which hee addeth immediatlie saying Because the dayes are evill not that the dayes were evill of themselues but this hee speaketh in respecte of the time and daungerous estate of Christians in his dayes the worlde being also then full of corruption and offences and therefore more difficill to the faithful to walke warilie therein the Gospell then having so manie adversaries and the Divell himselfe occupying a tyrannie in the Worlde so that the time coulde not be dedicate and consecrate to the service of GOD vnlesse the same were in a manner redeemed the lost time by-past bought againe with the losse of worldlie pleasures and forsaking of the vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse Seeking after newe occasiones of Godlinesse which the Worlde and worldlings by euill example would plucke awaie from vs. And therefore he admonisheth the Collossians likewise to walk warelie towards them that are without redeeming the time meaning toward the infidels that they being mingled amongst them might not onelie beware least they were defyled with their corrupt manner of living and so by processe of time become like to them but also to beware to giue them occasion of slander by any apearand evil ensample of life thereby to make them to speake evil of the Gospel and also to bee more cruell and bente to persecute them for the Gospelles sake therefore hee willeth them to redeeme the time by taking occasion of well dooing Wheresoever he same was offered and striue against all impedimentes and that because of the evill dayes and greate corruptiones that then reigneth in the World Now if the Apostle had neede in his dayes to vse this exhortation howe much more is it needefull in this corrupted age wherein we are of the which the same Apostle PAVLE speaketh vnto TIMOTHEE in the second Epistle the third Chapter in this manner Knowe thou this that in the laste dayes there shall bee perrellous times For menne shall